About New Delhi Assembly (Vidhan Sabha) Constituency

New Delhi, a posh urban area within the metropolis of Delhi, bears the architectural imprints of British architects Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker. The Assembly constituency of New Delhi belongs to New Delhi Parliamentary constituency. During the 2013 Delhi assembly elections, Congress candidate Sheila Dikshit focused on development work done by her government in the city in various areas including infrastructure, education and health care. But due to anti-incumbency and allegations of scams surrounding Commonwealth Games, Aam Aadmi Part (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal managed to defeat her by grabbing 44,269 votes as against Dikshit's 18,405.

Map of New Delhi Assembly Constituency

Map showing the different localities of the New Delhi Assembly Constituency.

Sitting and previous MLAs from New Delhi Assembly Constituency

Below is the list of winners and runners-up in the New Delhi assembly elections conducted so far.

Year

A.C No.

Assembly Constituency Name

Type

Winner

Gender

Party

Vote

Runner Up

Gender

Party

Vote

2015

40

New Delhi

GEN

Arvind Kejriwal

M

AAP

57213

Nupur Sharma

F

BJP

25630

2013

40

New Delhi

GEN

Arvind Kejriwal

M

AAP

44269

Smt. Sheila Dikshit

F

INC

18405

2008

40

New Delhi

GEN

Smt. Sheila Dikshit

F

INC

39778

Vijay Jolly

M

BJP

25796

Localities in New Delhi Assembly Constituency

All the localities of New Delhi Assembly Constituency and areas that each of these locality cover, are as enlisted in the table below:

Blogs on Delhi Elections 2015

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It is rather easy to identify the biggest achievement of the Aam Aadmi Party government in the first five months of being at the helm of power in Delhi – the success of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in remaining in news and hogging the headlines! If at all there has been a Chief Minister amongst 29 others, who continuously made news nationally yet remained untainted with scams, it was Kejriwal. (Yet another Chief Minister making news is Madhya Pradesh’s Shivraj ...Read More

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Towards the end of May, at a time when the clash between Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung and Delhi’s Aam Aadmi Party government snowballed into a major controversy, Manish Sisodia - the deputy chief minister of Delhi, tried to give the whole issue a certain dimension by saying that his government was actually fighting for the people. “We are not fighting for personal gains, but for the people's rights, their benefit, and against corruption,” Sisodia said at the much publicised 'Janta ...Read More

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